Do you want to be a valued member of a team who plays a critical role in providing excellent care to patients in a lab setting? Do you possess excellent patient-relations skills? If so, consider joining our team as a Lab Assistant PRN in our laboratory at Northwest Medical Center Springdale.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Matching laboratory requisition forms to specimen tools
• Disposing of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies
• Drawing blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods
• Disposing of blood and other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies
• Drawing blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods
• Performs activities and other tasks as necessary in a laboratory environment.
• Records observations and measurements and reports results.
• Responsible for cleaning, disinfecting, and maintaining cleanrooms and equipment.
• Assists with receipt and inspection of raw materials, and ordering and stocking of materials and equipment.

Key qualifications to be considered for this include:

• High school diploma and/or certification by a nationally recognized body
• Electronic mail software and medical software experience preferred
• Superior service orientation mentality
• Active listening skills
• Social perceptiveness
• Problem sensitivity

About Northwest Health

Northwest Health provides inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic imaging, medical, surgical and emergency services to the Bentonville, Springdale, Fayetteville, Johnson and Siloam Springs communities in northwestern Arkansas. We are your family, friends and neighbors, and we work with and for our community to provide quality healthcare.

With a combined active medical staff of more than 540 physicians, 2,200 employees and 487 beds, Northwest Health is one of the largest health networks in Northwest Arkansas with five hospitals and over thirty clinics. Our hospitals include:

• Northwest Medical Center - Bentonville
• Northwest Medical Center - Springdale
• Siloam Springs Regional Hospital
• Northwest Health Physicians’ Specialty Hospital
• Willow Creek Women’s Hospital

Northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest growing and most dynamic regions in America—a perfect blend of urban sophistication and small town charm. If you aren’t local and haven’t already discovered this, check out www.northwestarkansas.org to see why NWA keeps winning awards as a best place to live.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/M/V) and welcome you to apply.